Praying for Guidance

Lord God, Your Word tells me to trust in You with all my heart and not lean on my own understanding. In all my ways I aim to acknowledge You, then You will make my paths straight (Proverbs 3:5-6). You tell us that the mind of man can plan a course, but You direct his steps (Proverbs 16:9). O loving Lord, please direct my steps and lead me down the paths of righteousness for Your name’s sake (Psalm 23:3)

Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105).  You are my lamp, O Lord; You turn my darkness into light (2 Samuel 22:29). Lord, You have brought light to my life. My God, You light up my darkness (Psalm 18:28). Please help me to understand that, because I am Yours, Light is shining in my darkness whether or not I can behold it or understand it.

Your Word says: I am the Lord, your God, who teaches you for your benefit and profit, who leads you in the way you should go (Isaiah 48:17). For the sake of Your name, O Lord, lead me and guide me (Psalm 31:3). O Lord, please guide me continually, satisfy my soul in this parched land, and make fat my bones (strengthen my frame); and I shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring whose waters never run dry (Isaiah 58:11).

You stated that in Your unfailing love You will lead the people You have redeemed. In Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling (Exodus 15:13). You have compassion for us, and so will guide us and lead us beside springs of water (Isaiah 49:10).

You have given me the Holy Spirit to guide me into all truth (John 16:13).  Thank You for His guiding presence in my life. So, send forth Your light and Your truth, O Lord. Let them guide me; let them bring me to Your holy mountain, to the place where You dwell (Psalm 43:3).

Give Your servant an understanding heart that I may always be able to discern between good and evil (1 Kings 3:9). So that I may be able to discern what is best, that I may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ’s return (Philippians 1:10).

Lord Jesus, I acknowledge that the Holy Spirit clearly says in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons (1 Timothy 4:1). As the time of Your return approaches, there will be increasing deception and literally twisted doctrines taught by angels of darkness. Please develop a higher level of discernment in me, my Lord. Teach me to know truth so well that I will quickly recognize the most finely crafted lie. Help me never to abandon the faith to follow a lie.